To Members of the Council of Labor and Defense, personally from Comrade Lenin.
February

Submitting tomorrow (18/11) to the Council of Labor and Defense a draft resolution on the general planning commission, I propose — for your information — a draft of the main point of the resolution and a preliminary list of members (compiled after consultation with Comrade Rykov and Comrade Krzhizhanovsky).

I request that amendments or a counter-project be prepared for the Council of Labor and Defense session on 18/11.

A general planning commission is established under the Council of Labor and Defense for the elaboration of a unified state economic plan on the basis of the plan for electrification approved by the 8th All-Russian Congress of Soviets, and for general supervision over the implementation of this plan.

The economic tasks of the first stage, and especially those which must be carried out in the immediate term — in particular during the course of 1921 — must be elaborated by the general planning commission or its sub-commission in the most detailed fashion, with full consideration of the existing conditions of concrete economic reality.

LENIN COLLECTION